startup

“In terms of starting a company, having a plug and play systems, no code software and everything, but that makes things more competitive. More people can start companies now. More people can build organizations that can disrupt existing industries.”

“Less than five percent, though, are getting VC money every year. That means that the vast majority of them are chasing after something they're not going to get.”

“It's also a way for us to actually distinguish between startups who are really interested and committed to the program, Rather than really just joining programs after programs, and quite honestly, there's a lot of startups who do that in this part of the world…”

“If we take everything into account, France is the best country to create a company, a startup. Maybe it's not the best country to grow the startup when you have succeeded generating some revenue and you're scaling up, but it's still going to be the best place …”

“It's one of the reasons why a lot of startups fail. It's not that they've got the problem wrong, and the problem is often there, but by jumping to the solution, they've missed more obvious solutions, easier to build solutions, and better solutions.”

“The hustle and the speed, they move so fast, you know, they'll make decisions super quick, so if an opportunity comes up as a PR professional, you have moments to capitalize on that. Whether you're in social, tweeting something back at someone, or if you're go…”

“One thing I always see is a lot of startups resistant to getting user feedback, customer feedback, even though people preach it all the time, like get user feedback, put it in front of users. And I think it's always been, you know, oh, that's, why don't they w…”

“And that's where, you know, 95% of startups don't get to level two. You know, they don't build a product that makes more than, you know, a thousand or 2000 dollars, if that.”

“When I'm looking at pricing of a startup I love to say like, encourage abuse instead of limiting the usage. And I actually mean that because like, if you, if the person will on the other side will see the value out of the tool and will abuse your tool, that me…”

“Attrition is one of the thing that a lot of startups are fighting with. People are really getting a good amount of money, good amount of packages from all over the country, and they don't need to move their asses to the place they can sit at home and work.”

“Startups and small businesses, because they're so chaotic, Your ability to focus and tame the chaos can actually be quite beneficial. Whereas other people without learning the difficulties and neurodivergence can't tame the chaos. They just feel like they're i…”

“One of the key things that I say to any startups is start with those processes in place, because if you start to take on staff and then try to do them retrospectively, then you now have to deal with pushback from them wanting to do things how they've always do…”

“I think there's, you know, you're going to see American manufacturing come back to some degree. You know, certainly a lot of the companies, especially the startups are, you know, they're building their own factories and, you know, doing, doing things themselve…”

“A startup probably shouldn't use AI in the hiring process, right? The choice and the impact of the individuals at that early stage is too important.”

“Speed, speed is the only thing we survive on. And you know, being, you know, being right is a luxury that we just don't have.”

“If this guy can't do a thing that you need that you can't do, you have no business working with him and you don't have the time and the energy to train him and give him the opportunity to thrive.”

“The second time would be easier and the third time would be even easier, but it's never that way. Every product is different. Every market is different. Every time in the industry is different.”

“Cause startups don't need like a leadership hierarchy at the beginning. You don't need directors and managers and whatnot. You need developers and then you need the founders. That's it.”

“I mean, open AI, for example, right now, now allows you to upload a PDF file, right? Those are the upload PDF and talk to it. How many startups did that just kill? Startups and businesses, right? There are so many that came up and said, Ooh, we're going to par…”

“You cannot test on What your product does? Does it do it or not? Like that part you have to have a really clear grasp on. And then we can come in and sort of position that in the way that it needs to be positioned to the right folks online.”

“What I learned from the, you know, the business plan company that I started was people don't want a business plan. They want to be able to actually queue quickly. And they honestly don't really need a rock solid business plan to start either. They need some ty…”

“We are an integrated marketing firm that supports startups exclusively. We are two years old and we are crossing over to a million dollars in revenue.”

“There's a huge gap, by the way, of what Gen Z think startups are and do and what startups actually are and what they actually do.”

“And if you look at most startups from the idea in, in the regular life, not, not in 20, 21. Invest between I'll say six to 12 months from the moment they have an idea and start working until they find a partner and figure out what they're doing and being able …”

“Anything beyond like, 10% growth over where you're at right now is just not gonna happen. There's no way that that's gonna happen within a quarter. And that's a young startup.”

“You don't want someone to sign up for a month. You want them to sign up for at least a year, because over that year you get to have the ability to really help them to make traction with what they're doing.”

“The problem is you end up doing a lot of one-offs and ultimately I I've seen this before where you end up doing more one-offs than you do of what you actually set out to do. And now you've set yourself up as kind of being a custom. Everything is customized and…”

“In the current interest rate environment, private equity firms that run startups have demanded over the last three years what they call efficiency. And by efficiency, they almost always mean higher return on investment, higher return on ad spend, higher ROI, w…”

“I do believe that the capacity that we have is going to create an even, A greater abundance of cognition and compute that is going to make a number of different businesses in different AI verticals and different AI niches possible that previously would have no…”

“If you look at any market, there's always, it's always the most crowded at the bottom. Like the low price segment of startups fighting for 10 K PUCs. There's so many of those in any kind of market.”

“Early companies tend to run on, like, founder proximity. Like, you're in every room. Decisions tend to happen by osmosis. Like, the culture comes from your actual physical presence. And none of that gets designed intentionally because it never had to be. Like,…”